The epidemic spread again in the United States, Britain, India and Japan
– The “Health Organization”: The number of cases globally increased by 80 percent over a month
related topics
Talk about the Covid-19 epidemic returns in the midst of summer in France and other countries, with a rise in the number of infections that calls for vigilance, although it has not reached high levels. Resurgences of the epidemic were also reported in the United States, Britain, India and Japan.
The peoples overcame the SARS-Cove-2 virus, after it continued to spread for more than three years through many waves, but it is now returning to the minds of the French. Some indications confirm its resurgence. Visits to emergency departments with suspected Covid-19 infection in the week from July 31 to August 6 increased by 31 percent compared to the previous week, with 920 cases recorded, according to Sante publique France data.
And the Public Health Agency confirmed that “the numbers are still moderate.” Epidemic waves during the summer or winter of 2022 recorded more than four thousand cases per week. And at the SOS Medecins service, “medical examinations for suspected Covid-19 infection are increasing in all age groups,” reaching more than 1,500 examinations at the beginning of August, an increase of 84 percent in one week, according to (Santé Public France). .
And the World Health Organization said today that the number of cases detected worldwide increased by eighty percent over a month, with an additional one and a half million injuries from the tenth of July to the sixth of August.
The Director-General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, confirmed on Wednesday during a press conference that the organization no longer considers the epidemic a global health emergency since the beginning of May, but that “the virus continues to spread in all countries, and it continues to kill and change.”
The mutant (E-G. 5EG(5), which scientists call Eris, is currently the most monitored because it may be behind the resurgence of the epidemic. Experts believe that summer gatherings and the decline in the level of immunity are factors that may play a role in the return of the epidemic as well. This mutant appears The Omicron subspecies of the XBB strain is more transmissible than others, possibly due to the influence of new genetic mutations, and may be more able to bypass immune defenses.
And the World Health Organization stated that more than 17 percent of the Covid infections that were detected in the world in mid-July are due to the mutated (I-G5).
And the director of the Institute of Global Health at the University of Geneva, Antoine Flaholt, stated that this variant “was detected in India, but also in other Asian countries, in North America, and in Europe, where it tends to replace the previous dominant strains.”
At this point, “the available evidence does not indicate that AG.5 poses an additional public health risk compared to other circulating Omicron variants,” according to the WHO. But Tedros stated that “the risk of a more dangerous mutant emerging remains, which will lead to a sudden increase in infections and deaths.”
Monitoring the evolution of the epidemic is further complicated by a lack of data since the number of tests has decreased and follow-up measures have been discontinued. And Antoine Flahau considered that “the epidemic situation is very blurry all over the world.” He added, “It is necessary for the health authorities to re-deploy a reliable health system to monitor Covid,” calling in particular for conducting wastewater analyzes in Europe.
With the passage of time and waves, the impact of Covid, as well as the number of people requiring hospitalization and the number of deaths, have greatly diminished, thanks to a high level of immunity acquired through vaccination and / or infection, but it has not disappeared. Antoine Flahaut asked, “Whether immunocompromised people and the elderly would be asked to take tests in the event of symptoms, even if they were simple, so that they could benefit from early and effective antiviral treatments to reduce the risk of serious forms.”
Source: Rai
Responsibility for the news: Cedar News is not responsible for this news in form or content, and it only expresses the point of view of its source or writer.
2023-08-11 19:09:39
#Covid. #Cedar #News
